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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. I would think they’d need a mix of MiG-29’s, SU fighters and the the Sukhoi-25. Having said that… everyone practices flight operations from highways with improvised reventments for fueling and arming. That is to say, push the damn things across the border if you have to and have the Ukrainians figure out how to get them airborne. I bet they have some ideas and the balls to try it.
  2. I remember our troops welding whatever metal they could find to their Humvees before the up-armored versions were produced and delivered to Iraq. I wonder if this is the Russian attempt at the same with the materials on hand with wood being more durable and as plentiful as vodka bottles.
  3. So basically the Valley was taken a few years ago, Houston just fell, Beaumont is under assault and there’s a huge Russian column stalled outside of Denton trying to surround the Metroplex. And nobody generally gives a F what’s happening west of the Dnieper River (I35).
  4. The US still has several thousand nuclear weapons. More than enough to properly end humanity.
  5. If only there were a way to stop the transmission of power from a nuclear power plant without shelling the plant itself. How do they get power from power plants to users anyway?
  6. The Great Patriotic War still casts a long shadow in the minds of Russians. It’s the easiest and, frankly, laziest way to sell this war to his populace and politicos.
  7. I’m well aware, and to take away from something from Sgt. Major Plumley from another war, there were plenty of weapons lying around. I’m more than aware that it’s a death sentence.
  8. I’m sure that sent to fight in the invasion will mean weaponless and ordered to clear minefields with their feet or assault enemy positions with a herring.
  9. My comment was supporting your point. Also, technology doesn’t account for the ability of the pilot, training or tactics.
  10. Anyone can get caught looking the wrong way, and all the air show stuff is cool if you can point the nose and or get an off bore sight shot off, but energy is still energy, and if you cash a lot of it in and miss you’re fairly screwed.
  11. I personally wouldn’t post pictures of actual GLG-20’s, but the latest intel suggests they’re headed for the road to Dushanbe.
  12. The Chinese, being incredibly prescient or more likely forewarned, have hoarded a sizable portion of the world’s grain supply.
  13. Which is why I fear it may happen as a retaliatory strike from the Russians if we press too hard. It’s a delicate balance to strike between stopping the death and carnage, and cornering a wild animal so that he has no choice but act wildly and irrationally. Providing an out so that the animal can be dealt with in a more controlled manner is the answer. I just don’t see that “offramp” as the hot word of the day implies.
  14. We’ll save it for another thread as per request. It won’t be fine. There are some books on the subject based on the actual studies done on the subject. Society breaks down very fast. There are no helping hands from other states or the Feds stepping in in a meaningful way. Not when it happens in all states simultaneously.
  15. It’s not just not having power. No fridges. Food spoils quickly. Almost no one has extra in the pantry. Cars work fine until none of the gas pumps work. And so on and so forth. Shit would get hinky fast. Particularly in the cities, and especially so if it were to happen in the dead of winter or middle of the summer.
  16. Their conventional force has been an underfunded paper tiger for years. They were no more capable of driving on Paris prior to Ukraine than they were of swearing off Vodka for the year. I do fear their cyber abilities, and I’m sure they could get more than a few ICBM’s pickled off if need be. Take out our power grid for a month and the majority of the country dies of exposure, sickness and starvation.
  17. Which do you think is harder: Supplying the logistical train supporting 150,000 soldiers or employing a group of hackers to F up our wide ass open power grid? Already forgotten them shutting down a few pipelines on a whim? Think it’s hard to lob a single high yield warhead high up into the atmosphere for an EMP attack? That’s a button push. I assure you they’ve got missiles and warheads dedicated to that very thing. You’re confusing general ineptitude of conventional forces with asymmetric warfare conducted by specialized units.
  18. Tell Putin he can step down and China can offer him sanctuary if everyone is sanguine about it.
  19. If it’s getting MIRV time then pick a strategic asset and get as close to it as possible. A few blinding milliseconds of light and no pain. I actually wonder if the world’s governments suffice themselves with wiping out the world populace without using nukes. It’s easily possible, and you know some vestiges of governments and militaries will survive. Planet is reusable, limited civilization starts again, and the notional governments still have the big toys to ward off anyone who may have fared better than the others. Rome falls. Just in a lot less spectacular fashion than in a flurry of mushroom clouds.
  20. Russia may have a way back, but they are economically destroyed until Putin is gone. Which means he won’t be in charge much longer, or alive much longer than that. Everyone is thinking nuke strikes. Imagine what a cyber attack that crippled our electrical grid for a month would do. Or an actual EMP attack. Or a hypersonic cruise missile strike on things like the Atchafalaya Locks. You can F up America for a long time and kill most of our populace without glassing our cities. And Putin may not care what the reprisals are once he understands that he’s a dead man walking.
  21. The posts are coming to quickly to track. Naturally a path back for Russia is key, but there is no path back for Putin. And he may act in a terrible fashion once he realizes it.
  22. I’m more than a little worried that a starving, economically destroyed and no longer militarily credible Russia might lead to a situation where some of those lives we’d be saving are our own. They don’t need to nuke our cities to dial much of the world back to the Stone Age with them. Im hoping Putin is retired in one fashion or another in short order, because I think the odds of him lashing out as a cornered animal are well above zero. And he doesn’t value life beyond his own. This is the first time in a long time that an opponent can reach out and touch us in ways the terrorist s only dreamed of consequences be damned.
  23. That’s not how thermobaric, or fuel air bombs, work. Imagine being able to drop a BLEVE type explosion anywhere you want with a munition. A hit on the actual munition by a drone or something doesn’t allow for there to be a gas cloud with delayed ignition.
  24. You must think in Russian.
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